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Friday, May 26, 2023

A Liberal Dose, May 25, 2023 "Tear Down the Walls of Division"

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  A Liberal Dose May 25, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Tear down the walls of division”   My 9 th grade civics teacher (also 11 th grade h...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

A Liberal Dose, May 18, 2023 "The Difference Between a Column and a Classroom"

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  A Liberal Dose May 18, 2023 Troy D. Smith “The difference between a column and a classroom”   A couple of months ago, an old class...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

A Liberal Dose, May 11, 2023 "A Final Word (For Now) on Perception"

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  A Liberal Dose May 11, 2023 Troy D. Smith “A Final Word (For Now) on Perception”   About twenty years ago, I wrote a novel about...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

A Liberal Dose, May 4, 2023 "Frustration, Rage, and Searching for the American Dream"

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  A Liberal Dose May 4, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Frustration, Rage, and the American Dream”   In recent weeks I’ve talked about Falling...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

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  A Liberal Dose April 27, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Shot for getting the wrong address- what is happening?”   In about one week’s time,...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

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A Liberal Dose April 20, 2023 Troy D. Smith “ Breaking Bad and the Receding American Dream”   Recently, I wrote about Michael Dou...

A Liberal Dose, April 13, 2023 "The Tennessee Legislature Has Shot Itself in the Foot"

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A Liberal Dose April 13, 2023 Troy D. Smith “The Tennessee Legislature Has Shot Itself in the Foot”   My apologies for anyone who ...
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Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land and in 2017 for the short story "Odell's Bones" (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently a history professor at Tennessee Tech.
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